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>> this is devastating for the state of texas and the united states of america. we are going to see more people here illegally than live in the two largest areas in america. new york and los angeles combined. five times the number of people who live in houston, which is the fourth largest city in the country. >> of course the number of border encounters at the southern border, as you know, is at an all-time high. the critics of npp, or the mexico policy argue that it it is because those policies are in place but now there are repeat crossers, essentially, and that is why the numbers are inflat...

Surge at the border and why now, press illa? >> reporter: we're seeing a steady increase since the beginning of the year of migrants being apprehended but what makes july remarkable is that it is a high number for the hottest summer weeks. these are dangerous times for migrants to cross because of that sweltering heat. and as you mentioned, in july there were more than 212,000 migrantsen countered at the u.s./mexico border. number one, it includes repeat crossers. so the department of homeland security secretary said that 27% of that 212,000 are people who have tried to cross the border multip...

Pushed back and coming again, back and forth and back and forth. explain that. priscilla? >> so part of that is that 212,000, of that 27% are repeat crossers. mayorkas addressed that yesterday. part of the reason is because of that policy that allows border authorities to expel migrants. so some of those migrants will try to cross the u.s./mexico border again. so what they're doing to try to address that is to actually send migrants into mexico to avoid them trying to cross again in the u.s./mexico border. but, again, this, too, has received criticism because some of these migrants are actuall...

First off, it's been with a lot of other headlines, easy to take your eye off of the border. this is serious, tell us what you're seeing with the influx. >> the biden administration is grappling with the number of migrants at the u.s./mexico board. in july, more than 19,000 unaccompanied children were encountered. that already surpasses the record in march, when we were talking about more than 18,000, and over crowded border facilities. now, what the court filing noted is that this is one slice of an overall figure. in july, dhs is anticipating 210,000 arrests. now, this does include repeat cr...

November in taking on president obama. the real clear politics average poll shows the president with an 11 percentage point lead in that state. president obama, with 50 percent, governor romney has 39. the president won michigan quite handily back in 2008, getting 57 percent of the vote. right now, big changes in how america patrols her borders. today, the u.s. border patrol is launching a new strategy that it says will rely on more intelligence to identify repeat crossers. it will also impose more serious consequences on illegals. steve centanni, live from washington with more on that. what...